Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-02
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Since last November fifteen thou
sand families are said to have settled
in California o
So long as there are flats in the
world, sharps will never have much diff
ficulty in making Iiving.-BurEinqtO
Free Press.
There is no rule for beauty; this
enables every man to have better
looking wife than any of his neighbors-
Home Journal.
At the mouth of a Cornish mine
there is this advice: 'Do not fall down.
this shaft, as there are men at work at
the bottom of it"
There is on exhibition in Atlanta q
single of Georgia pine that has been
on a smoke house near Washington,
Ga, since 1885, 1t is perfectly sound
One of the Albany, N. Y, store
keepers is young girl fifteen years
old. She manages the store without
assistance. and pursues a growing bust
ness
The total egg crop of the United
States, or the product handled by the
larger cities and towns, is estimated
at $3.50, 100000 annually.-AmertcGn'
Poultry Journal.
Ramsey County, Mimi, pays h
bounty of three cents on gophers, and.
boys living in the suburbs of st. Paul
are getting considerable pocket money
by catching the destructive rodents.
During the past winter Mrs. Mary
Miller, of Hillsborough, n. H, fed
daily eight gray squirrels which came
to her door from the woods every
morning and departed after having
their breakfast. Chicago Herald.
The Sans Souci Hotel at Railston,
n. Y, which at the time of its erection
was the largest hostelry in the United
States, has been sold to New York
library. 1t has numbered among its
guests such men as Webster, Clay, =
Douglass and Calhoun Chicago Times.
The most desirable dog owned in
Maine Gf the adjective is permissible)
belongs to Mr.. Robert Henderson, of
Warren. The dog is fourteen weeks
old and weighs one pound and three
ounces-about as little dog as it is pos
sible to have in dog.-LeUrSton (Me.J
Journal.
Two young ladies living near Au-
burn, Cal, being of an ingenious turn
of mind, have constructed tasteful and
stylish looking dresses out of the
plebeian barley sack. 1t took ten sacks
for each dress. The fabric is really .
good imitation of the new loose mesh
goods known as canvas cloth.-Cincira-
natl Times.
"A negro cook at the Los Angeles
(Cal.) Jail kept eighty-five prisoners at
bay the other day and prevented their
escape. Fifteen desperate characters
overpowered the jailer and got away
before the cook heard the disturbance.
He faced the remainder with a carving
knife, which he threatened to use with
all his skill on the first convict that
came within his reach.
The thread used in Brussels lace is
of the greatest fineness. The finest
quality is spun in dark. underground
rooms, for contact with the dry air
causes the thread to break; so fine is it
as almost to escape the sight. A back
ground of dark paper is placed to
throw out the threads and the room is
80 arranged as to admit but one single
VI pun WI
The name Lennox was originally
Levenach, the field of the Leven. or
smooth stream; the founder of the
original LennOk family was Arkyll, a
Saxon baron of Northumberland, who
fled to Scotland about 1910 with other
Sax0n barons, and received from NAL
colin Canmore, the Scotch King, large
tract of land in the counties of Dunn
barton and Stirling.-Bro0kkyD Eagle.
"A colored individual at Elmira. N.
Y, asked the clerk at the post-office to
direct a letter for him. The clerk
wrote as desired: Miss Rosy Bell
The writer waited for
further information. Finally he asked:
''Well my friend. where does Miss.
Rosy Bell Washington nve?" "Why,
boss" answered the darby, confiden-
tally, "dat's JOS w do know. If L
knowed I'd d'reck it myself, and not .
bodder de post-office."
"A well-known steam engine builder
says that large share of the fault
found with engines running unsteadily
comes from permitting the governor to
get dry from lack OF oil, or gummed up
in some of its essential parts. He in
sending a man one hundred
and fifty miles upon repeated COM
plants of an engine sold two years
previous. A halliday spent in putting
the governor in condition was all the
man did when he got Characterization
NGchiniS!.
An odd practice prevails in regard
to mourning for deceased relatives in
COrea- ANY one who has suffered such
4 loss goes about for year wearing a
kind of pointed basket on his head,
which completely hides his face. and